According to Gun/Gretz Kawika Mitchell
 

Will be our MLB and there are no real competition to beat him out for the spot. Not even the Great Rich Scanlon! I was never down on Mitchell like a lot of people have been and felt like if he'd stay healthy he'd come around. So far this seems to be the case.

So what say the Planet about Mitchell and his apparent progress?

PhilFree:arrow:

Too early to tell. Needs to make it through camp. Looked pretty good Saturday, though, from what little I could see.

Might be falling into Gunther's 3-4 year window that it takes LBs to really "get it".

You know that Gun/Pagac are just holding Gopher down.

We know it 'cause the Roys told us it's so.

No, no, you have it all wrong. The roids were telling us that they were holding Gopher down. It was hard to understand them, though, what with their mouths full and all.

I heard Scanlon is on the Atkins and working with a speed coach and will be auditioning soon for the open corner spot.

Kawika Mitchell needs to stay healthy in training camp. He hasn't made it through camp once since he got drafted. He always comes up lame with a pulled hamstring that keeps him out 2-3 weeks.

If he can stay healthy, let him have it. When it's all said and done, I think Mike Maslowski will give him a run for his money. Call me crazy...

I don't doubt he will be the starter at the beginning of the season as draft pick politics usually trump performance and they desparately would still like to justify the high 2nd rounder they spent on his dizzy and confused self....By mid season I expect he will not be the starter......I expect DJ, Bell and Fuji to be the 3 starters....

maSLOWski will never see the field during the regular season again.

He does need to stay healthy but last year he recieved a high ankle sprain about two weeks before the season started and that's what kept him out of the games he missed. The year before he did have hammy problems all through camp and into the season.

PhilFree:arrow:

whatever... may best player win


i just hope the coaching staff truly allows the best player to win.


imo from what i have seen from Mitchell thus far, he would be better served at OLB.

If Maslowski can stay healthy throughout TC and Preseason, he will make the squad. Gun and DV LOVE HIM. If, and it's a big if, he can prove to be healthy, he'll make the 53 man roster. No doubt in my mind at all.

And that killed us last season because the coaching staff counted on Maz to come back, and he didn't. With Mitchell getting hurt, Beisel was forced to play MLB.

To be honest, Beisel looked better at MLB in TC than Mitchell did.

Hearing DV say "it will be very hard for him, very hard, he's way behind" in an interview this morning pretty much removed all doubt in my mind. I don't think he had the athletic ability to make the unit as it is right now before he got hurt two years ago.

That is all I hope for...However every team plays the draft pick/contract size politics and DV is well know for playing age politics...So that is highly unlikely.

We will have to wait and see. DV says a lot of shit he doesn't mean.